Clean Water Saves Lives

Access to clean water is crucial to the health of children and the well-being of entire communities. Children often walk hours every day, unable to spend time reading and playing, in order to fetch buckets of clean water. Diarrhea, one of the leading causes of child mortality, can be considerably reduced through access to clean water. Plus, if children aren’t spending their days fetching water, they can learn and play.

Donate to our mission and you can help us provide clean, safe water with dug and drilled wells, water pumps and latrines – improving health, sanitation and agriculture of communities.

About Our Work

A Day in the Life of Joseph

Joseph, a 7-year-old South Sudanese refugee, now lives with his mother and two siblings in Boroli Refugee Camp, Uganda. He is one of over 400,000 refugees who have fled South Sudan, seeking refuge from the brutal conflict that has engulfed the world's youngest nation. LEARN MORE

The Weight of Water

Robina, age 9, lives in rural Uganda. Like most girls there, she has to fetch water for her family to survive. Every day, she makes the long journey to collect drinking water from a distant well. And every day, she faces the threat of violence, and even death, along the way. WATCH NOW

How You Can Help

$8 can provide a month’s worth of water purification tablets to make drinking water safe for a family.

$20 can provide soap, bucket and aquatabs for a family of 5 for one month.

$50 can help provide clean, safe water from dug and drilled wells.

$150 can build manual water pumps that allow farmers to water crops regularly in harsh, rural climates.

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